Wine Install Help

Wade Smart wade at wadesmart.com
Wed Nov 9 01:37:14 UTC 2005


11082005 1935 GMT-5

Actually I did need IE to access some company sites. Though now I see I 
need a license. What is up with that?

I used sidenet before because I had trouble getting things to work 
right. Im still so very new to linux that I spend lots of time 
researching what ./configure means.

Thanks though.

Wade


'Forum Post wrote:
> Wade Smart Wrote: 
> 
>>11082005 1539 GMT-5
>>
>>I just got Sidenet Wine Config Utility Version 1.9.0 from 10 29 2005.
>>It 
>>says: "Caution: This utility requires wine >=20040716. Tested with wine
>>
>>0.9."
>>
>>Im looking in Synaptic and I see wine 0.0.20050725-0ubuntu1.
>>This is the wrong version of wine.
>>
>>How do you get a older version of wine?
>>
>>Wade
>>
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> 
> 
> Actually, you could go to the Wine homepage http://www.winehq.org
> and download the newest version, wine 0.9 in .deb format.
> It's been tested on Ubuntu Breezy, so it should work(it does for me!).
> I believe it works with Sidenet just fine.
> 
> Once you download the .debs, you can install them by moving to the
> directory 
> where they are sitting and typing this in the terminal:
> 
>>sudo dpkg -i  (insert the full name of the wine package you downloaded
>>here)
> 
> 
> Just so you know, you don't have to use Sidenet or any other utility if
> you install the .debs,unless you must have IE or something, since Wine
> works well out of the box.
> 
> 




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